by Eugene Ionesco · Reclam Philipp Jun. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783150086568
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«Die Stühle / Der neue Mieter» is a volume of absurdist theater by Eugène Ionesco, published by Reclam Philipp Jun. in paperback (104 pages, in German).
The two plays included —«The Chairs» and «The New Tenant»— are exponents of the absurd. Ionesco starts from everyday situations and makes them unsettling to address the failure of communication, solitude and the futility of human existence.
Volume 8656 of Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek, with an epilogue by Marianne Kesting and translation by Jacqueline and Ulrich Seelmann-Eggebert and Lore Kornell.
Suitable for students of German and for readers who want to discover absurdist theater in its original language.
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.
